Watch Phil Kessel’s first Pittsburgh Penguins goal

After a quiet first period the Coyotes Tobias Rieder took a ideal feed from Anthony Duclair to score the game’s first at 5:00 in the second stanza.

“It is not the results that we were looking for as a team, it’s just learning everyday and bouncing back for next Saturday”. – Charlie Coyle scored twice, including 21 seconds after a power-play goal by Zach Parise late in the second period, and Minnesota picked up where it left off last spring against St. Louis with a victory over the Blues.

Neither team scored in the opening period, although both had a few quality chances. Meanwhile, the Penguins are searching for Malkin’s left winger, opening the season with fellow Russian Sergei Plotnikov alongside the former Hart Trophy victor and Patric Hornqvist before switching to David Perron.

-Pittsburgh has won five of the its last seven games against Arizona. They feel it’s only a matter of time before it all comes together.

“It’s always nice to come out of the gate with two wins”, said forward Jordan Martinook, whose first career National Hockey League goal was the game-winner and also gave him his first National Hockey League win in nine tries. “Although the Penguins have launched 65 shots on goal through two games, Crosby doesn’t have any of them.The lone shot attempt with which he has been credited was blocked, and even if he’s focused on setting up his linemates, Kunitz and Kessel, Crosby knows he has to get off more shots”.

For the second consecutive game, Sidney Crosby was held without a shot. Penguins coach Mike Johnston replaced LW Bobby Farnham with LW Kevin Porter on the fourth line and the penalty-killing unit against Arizona….

Avalanche 6, Stars 3: DENVER – Gabriel Landeskog scored twice in the third period, one 47 seconds after John Mitchell’s tiebreaking goal, and Colorado rallied to beat Dallas.

Rieder scored early after the Penguins knocked the puck into their own zone to negate an offside on Arizona.

The Penguins answered 17 seconds later, when Kessel scooped up a neutral-zone turnover by Shane Doan and beat Smith to the stick side.

“When you get to score a goal it’s pretty special”, Martinook said. Smith stopped 40 of the 41 shots he faced against the Kings and 27 of 28 shots on Saturday against the Penguins.

He made one tough save after another, including several during a flurry midway through, the highlight his stretch to get Bonino’s shot with his pad.

Over this past weekend, Smith went out and proved his comments were not elements of sophistry, and carried the Coyotes to a surprising 2-0 start with wins over the Kings and the Penguins.

“I could envision something like this, but I didn’t picture it to be this good”, Smith said about his start to the season. Penguins D Olli Maatta appeared in his 100th career game…. He also passed Roman Hamrlik for 34th on the NHL’s games played list at 1,396….